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6 hours ago, JSB said:

That dude is something else. 

He's a smart feller, not a fart smeller

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  • As I posted above, I have a need to dig a few holes on our place, but before that happens I'll tell a story on one of my favorite holes on our place and one that I currently hate the most.  This took

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    Nice Saturday. Got after it about 3 hours. Not a big update, but satisfying.  Used the big jackhammer today. Very hard rock layer. I'm now about 5 ft below the third set. So that means I ca

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Another $50 gas to work half ass for 2 hours or so. At about 20" there is a fragmented shelf of limestone. Not so bad past that. Some fist size rocks, but all in all relatively doable.

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Deepest point is now 36". I have left a step in one corner. Need to blow out the rest down to deeper point, and the step.

All buttoned up for the day:

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Pondering a steel set system. It would be skinnier (lagging on the inside), more permanent, and when I get down as far as I want to, easier to pour concrete along the sides.

 

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Pouring concrete? What in the holy fuck is the final plan for this thing?

Post modern digging. Digging for the sake of digging.

That probably overkill for a swing set. 
 

Pouring concrete? What in the holy fuck is the final plan for this thing?

Dudes working a low quality vein of caliche. Gonna mine shit by hand. Everybody’s doing it.

Son of a bitch is probably going to strike oil or find gold or something.

8 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Pouring concrete? What in the holy fuck is the final plan for this thing?

Digging for Lithium. We all know that battery power will be the wave of the future. Never mind on how to generate the electricity to charge the battery. Doesn’t the switch on the wall provide electricity?

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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

(But if I find Padre Lopez's 15 burro loads of gold and silver, I'm keeping it.)

17 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

Pouring concrete? What in the holy fuck is the final plan for this thing?

A place for it to rub the lotion on it's skin.

16 hours ago, Bookman said:

Son of a bitch is probably going to strike oil or find gold or something.

or Jimmy Hoffa

....or perhaps salt. Then the artisanal marketing department swings into high gear-- a specialty salt with a username inspired clever nickname with which to rim your cocktail glasses. Something like Wholly Random Salt with the story of the hand dug hole on the label. Or WeDigIt Salt or Handdug Holy Shit Salt for your Daiquiri Twists and Margaritas. Might bring in some cash to replenish the shovel budget.

When you finish your mine, be sure to leave some Carhartts or Duluth pants down in the bottom that might be worth something to a future mine explorer.

 

 

I'm guessing it has something to do with shit.  like a latrine or septic.

I’m having a structure built in my backyard and the crew left the skid steer last night. Keys are in it. If it is still there tonight……

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fuck, still there, but they moved it to the front yard and took the keys with them. 

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High today was 105, so we picked up blizzards by noon. Noticeably cooler in the hole. But still pretty miserable. 

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Half is down to about 40". I won't be able to go up for a week or two, but I think I'm going to build a ladder.

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We put 2x8x16 blocks around the edge. Also got a nice sheet of treated plywood. Hopefully better next time I get a deluge.

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From the road:

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Lol…it’s never raining again so you should be ok.

Not sure how deep that is or how deep you may take it but you probably need to look at shoring up the walls - expecially since you have small kid helping.

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2 hours ago, AUinHsv said:

Not sure how deep that is or how deep you may take it but you probably need to look at shoring up the walls - expecially since you have small kid helping.

Yeah. I'll shore at 48" or so. 

On 6/11/2022 at 6:49 PM, CleverNickname said:

Yeah. I'll shore at 48" or so. 

So…next year?

The way you’re lollygagging around with them picks and shovels, you’d think it was 120*. 

15 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

The way you’re lollygagging around with them picks and shovels, you’d think it was 120*. 

Image of It can't be more than 114.

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I tried leaving at 630am, but it was still hot as hell.

Deepest point is 50 inches. I blew out the step I had left and getting out is now a hassle. Next time up I need to clean up the sides. I have been lazy and need to shave a couple inches off the long sides. Ten year old for scale.

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14 hours ago, GringoSalado said:

TIL what a Mattock is.

 

I've owned one for about 40 years or so.

I have two mattocks.  

Ya, two, bitch. 

On 5/11/2022 at 6:04 AM, Hpara759 said:

Nice....I've been known to drink at a couple bars in Angelo

We're near Coleman/Ballinger.  We go to Angelo when we need something from the "big city"....;)

On 6/26/2022 at 1:36 PM, CleverNickname said:

I tried leaving at 630am, but it was still hot as hell.

Deepest point is 50 inches. I blew out the step I had left and getting out is now a hassle. Next time up I need to clean up the sides. I have been lazy and need to shave a couple inches off the long sides. Ten year old for scale.

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Late on this thread - what are you building?

On 5/17/2022 at 4:19 PM, davidg said:

Everyone should have a truck, tractor and hole story.  Rite of passage type thing.   One of mine involved a recently purchased jeep, the previously mention flooded big lake right after if had flooded our property, the little JD350 dozer from the tractor thread and my future wife.  Many years later my wife confided in me that if that would have been a first date, there wouldn't have been a second.  Nothing builds a relationship like burying a jeep tire deep and wading out of knee deep water and mud and then trying to come-along and dig for an hour or so before walking a mile or so to where your dad is pushing dirt to come pull you out.

Don't Jeep drunk....

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"If you come to Chiny you can stop digging," Augustus called after him.  "That's the place where the men wear pigtails."

38 minutes ago, deadshank said:

"If you come to Chiny you can stop digging," Augustus called after him.  "That's the place where the men wear pigtails."

If it wasn’t for you I’d be halfway to the Matagorda by now. 

On 5/31/2022 at 7:13 PM, TexasEd said:

I'm guessing it has something to do with shit.  like a latrine or septic.

I was thinking something to do with the cheerleaders from the local high school, but still intrigued.

OP should have looked at maps and found a privy from an 1850s girls college that is full of glass bottles, trash, and dog mummies.  Would be much easier to dig out.

 

12 hours ago, deadshank said:

"If you come to Chiny you can stop digging," Augustus called after him.  "That's the place where the men wear pigtails."

 

11 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

If it wasn’t for you I’d be halfway to the Matagorda by now. 

 

Well first man that comes along that can read Latin is invited to rob us as far as I’m concerned. I’d like the chance to shoot at a educated man once in my life.

Don't forget to take a left turn at Albuquerque!

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I built a ladder. Should last me a while. Not sure when I'll get down to past 8 or 9 ft.

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It's 28" wide so it can fit in the 30" narrow side of my eventual 4x2.5 clear set/lagging (so it doesn't collapse and kill me). I'll probably build the first set when I'm about 5 ft down and it's all widened out like I need it. Not eager to see the bill for that lumber and all thread concoction.

 

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